Holiday Craziness

Fast and furious:

• Finishing last minute shopping, taking care of last minute errands, doing all the things that need doing.
• Finally about over the cold from hell.
• Looking more and more likely that work is gonna happen starting in early January. Holy crap I've got a lot of stuff to do before then.
• Need to get back to exercising - we're all better off when I work out.

Moan, Groan, Complain, Gripe

I have a cold. It's not horrible, but it's annoying. It's wearing me down.
I managed a 3 mile run yesterday morning and played doubles last night. I didn't really enjoy either workout, and that's not like me. In fact, I couldn't wait to get off the court last night. I was asleep by 10:30.
Today, my hip hurts like hell and is suggesting that I take the day off from any physical activity.
I think the universe is trying to tell me something.

Days Go By...

So yeah, it's already Thursday - when did that happen? Here's what the week has held, so far:

• Monday's run, which left me in some serious pain on Tuesday.
• Tuesday & Wednesday, played some doubles with friends.
• Wednesday also held the first baseball practice of fall season. Wow, we have a ways to go on that front. Some of those kids have been groomed to play the sport starting around six months old. There's a little boy on his team who has been taught to play catcher. And by that I mean, he has the equipment, the catcher's glove, the shin guards, can catch and throw pretty damn well, and hits the crap out of the ball. He may also be an older 7, as opposed to the 6 that some of the kids are, but damn. It's hard to know what to do here. Do I push Benjamin so he works harder and gets better but may not enjoy it as much, or do I just let him enjoy it for the time being? I have no idea what to do. 
• Backhands!!!  Yes, I know, that's really not all that exciting, but I'm starting to hit a few two handed backhands with minimal pain. This makes me very happy, 'cause it means the tendon on my left wrist is healing.
• A project I've been working on this week. I'm beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel on it, although I may not wrap it up until next week. There will definitely be pictures of this one. It's been a learning experience, to say the least, and has sucked away a good bit of my time this week.

So that's it; that's my week in a nutshell. Not the most interesting thing in the world, but sometimes quiet weeks are good ones.

Pointless Post

Writer's Block. I gots nothin' today. It's a beautiful day but it's supposed to storm tonight. Tennis match, baseball game both on the agenda tonight, so it's gonna be busy. Spent a long time with my guitar last night, I'm really feeling good about the progress I'm making. I'm beginning to make some chord transitions without having to look - that idea was inconceivable to me when I first started, so maybe there's hope.

Anyway, hopefully I'll find some inspiration around here somewhere and write something halfway interesting. Or maybe some wine tonight will make something interesting. If so, apologies in advance, because it'll probably only be interesting to me. Then again, that's probably the main accomplishment of this blog...